THE HOUSING AND COMMUNAL SPHERE AS THE MAIN INDICATOR OF QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES

Abstract

The article describes the historical experience of the management of the housing and communal sector in Russia, which shows that the state has always paid a lot of attention to this sphere.The article also provides an international experience of management in the apartment buildings (AB) and the main foreign models of management in communal sphere. This experience of management in the AB is very important and interesting for Russia, because almost 85% of the population live in such houses.The authors examine the market fundamental principals in the housing and communal sector and the inability of their realization in the current economic situation in Russia.The authors believe that the main approach taken in the early 1990-s, namely the formation of market relations, will not allow the communal sphere to come for the forefront economic row, either to improve the quality of life of the Russian population or to increase its reproduction.For the population of the country, where the poor can be attributed about 85%, and who lives in a cold climate (60% of Russian territory is above the Arctic Circle), the housing and communal sphere– is the sphere of survive.

Keywords

• communal sphere
• services sector
• apartment building (AB)
• market principals
• management companies
• homeowners
• housing cooperatives
• foreign experience